Last updated30 October 2025 Guidance The NHS annual pay award process Learn how NHS Employers participates in the NHS annual pay award process.
Last updated21 January 2025 Article SAS contract 2021 FAQs These FAQs have been developed to help employers with questions around the implementation of the specialty doctor and specialist grade contracts.
Last updated19 September 2025 News Extension to transitional pay protection arrangements Transitional pay protection arrangements have been extended to eligible doctors on the 2016 Terms and Conditions of Service (TCS).
Last updated18 January 2024 Case study Reward outside the NHS A look at how reward can be a driver for change in a large organisation outside of the NHS.
Last updated26 September 2022 Report Medical staffing workforce review Research examining key workforce issues experienced by the NHS medical staffing profession.
Last updated8 November 2021 Article SAS doctor development Information on how best to support the development of specialty, associate specialist and specialist (SAS) doctors and dentists.
Last updated10 December 2024 News NHS Employers' evidence to the pay review bodies 2025/26 Read the key messages and evidence to the Pay Review Body (NHS PRB) and the Doctors' and Dentists' Pay Review Body (DDRB) 2025/26.
Last updated15 October 2024 Guidance Guidance: the establishment and introduction of the specialist role in England An introduction to embedding the specialist grade into the workforce.
Last updated19 September 2025 Guidance Less-than-full-time medical trainees guidance This guidance focuses specifically on how the pay system works for less-than-full-time (LTFT) trainees.
Last updated22 August 2025 Guidance Guidance for SAS transfer to 2021 contracts The guidance sets out the steps that employers and SAS doctors and dentists should follow when transferring to the 2021 contracts.